Father Juan Sosa, pastor of St. Joseph Church in Miami Beach, near the partially collapsed condo building in Surfside, Fla., speaks to the media before the 8 a.m. Mass June 25, 2021, which was offered for victims of the collapse. Father Sosa said 10 of his parish families who lived in the building were unaccounted for, while two others had been accounted for. Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami is assisting with the emergency response, and it launched an appeal for financial contributions for those affected by the collapse. (CNS photo/Tom Tracy, Florida Catholic)The super moon, known as the “Strawberry full moon,” and the last super moon of 2021, is pictured behind a cross over Skopje, North Macedonia, June 25. (CNS photo/Ognen Teofilovski, Reuters)People recite the rosary while participating in a roadside prayer rally at St. James Church in Setauket, N.Y., June 24, 2020, to mark the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ annual Religious Freedom Week. The observance always begins June 22, the feast of two English martyrs who fought religious persecution, Sts. Thomas More and John Fisher, and ends June 29, the feast of two apostles martyred in Rome, Sts. Peter and Paul. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)Carlos Eduardo Pacheco paddles his canoe in front of São Sebastiao Catholic Church, flooded by waters from the Solimoes River in Manacapuru, Brazil, June 24, 2021. (CNS photo/Bruno Kelly, Reuters)Pope Francis greets Mattia Villardita, 27, from northern Italy, dressed as Spider-Man, during his general audience in the San Damaso Courtyard of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican June 23, 2021. Villardita dresses up in superhero costumes and visits children in hospitals. The pope began a new series of audience talks focused on St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians and its lessons about evangelization, faith and freedom. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)A tornado-damaged statue of St. Francis stands in front of a house near St. Scholastica Church in Woodridge, Ill., June 23, 2021. A category EF-3 tornado touched down near the parish rectory and demolished the garage at St. Scholastica June 20. A twister of that magnitude can bring wind gusts of up to 165 mph. (CNS photo/Karen Callaway, Chicago Catholic)Police officers in Boston salute the casket of K-9 Kitt June 22, 2021, during a memorial service at Gillette Stadium held in honor of the police dog who was killed during a domestic violence call. (CNS photo/Jessica Rinaldi, Pool via Reuters)People in Atlanta are seen June 21, 2021, during a stop on the Black Voters Matter organization’s Freedom Ride for Voting Rights. The voter outreach tour was making stops in several Southern states on its way to Washington. Organizers said they planned the tour to recall the Freedom Rides, a series of protests against segregation by Blacks and whites who rode buses together through the South in 1961. (CNS photo/Dustin Chambers, Reuters)
Author: Catholic News Service
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